This year’s Knitting History Forum Conference was a fascinating and informative journey through knitting history and traditions featuring a roster of informative speakers presenting papers on a...
The current edition of the Journal for Weavers, Spinners & Dyers includes a short piece by Carol Christiansen, Curator at the Shetland Museum and Archives and a previous...
An exciting prospect for knitting scholars for next year has been announced with the Call for Papers issued by the AHRC Fleece to Fashion project at the University...
Extended abstracts of papers presented at the Knitting History Forum Conference on 13th November 2021. ‘From fleece to fez in fifteen steps: an interpretation of...
The Textile Research Centre is hosting a study day of knitting in the style of Mor Astrup on Saturday 6th November 2021. The Mor Astrup technique originated in Norway,...
More news about the Holy Hands research project into early knitted liturgical gloves: the latest issue of The Journal of Dress History includes the article ‘Holy Hands:...
This year’s Knitting History Forum Conference is the result of an open call on the theme of Heads, Hands and Feet, examining knitted artefacts and evidence of their...
The Knitting in Early Modern Europe (KEME) and Holy Hands research projects have come together to catalogue nearly 100 examples of knitted liturgical gloves. Through the Holy Hands project,...
Elizabethan knitting is the subject of a newly-published article in the journal ‘Textile History’. Lesley O’Connell Edwards’s paper is entitled ‘The Stocking Knitting Industry of...